Community Support
One of DEA’s core values is community involvement. To encourage
this, DEA pays employees for volunteer time within certain parameters. Generally,
any DEA employee who has the “heart” for a project is given the
go-ahead to spend work time organizing it. In fiscal year 2006, DEA employees
recorded more than 1,475 hours in civic duty labor.
DEA employees also spend countless hours of their own time supporting activities,
such as:
- Blood drives
- Community home-painting and Habitat for Humanity projects
- Holiday donations and “giving trees”
- Fundraising drives to assist victims of disasters
- Support for victims of domestic violence
- Volunteer activities for environmental stewardship
- Donations to food banks
- Public broadcasting drives
- Support for schools and athletic programs
- Runs and walks for funding breast cancer research, diabetes, and muscular
dystrophy